skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How do you think they pick the basket?

By looking for consumables that people pay for regularly. Coincidentally, the things people pay for regularly are generally the things they need to live. But that doesn't make it a cost of living index. It is literally a consumer price index. That's what CPI stands for.

> Many categories are included in CPI, such as housing.

Indeed. The consumable portion of housing (rent, interest payments, etc.) is something most people pay for regularly, so it is ripe for inclusion. On the flip side, ignoring that a house isn't normally considered a consumable, most people will buy approximately one in their lifetime so it wouldn't be a great comparator for seeing how an individual perceives a change in value over time.

> it is intended to measure the price increases that consumers experience.

Yes, exactly, a general increase across a wide variety of goods and services comes as the result of a decline in value of the currency. There is no way to determine currency value in a vacuum, but it can be inferred this way. Which, as it happens, is what CPI gives us. Of course, there are other ways to measure inflation. Someone doing economics work will not use just a single measure of inflation as there are pros and cons to different inference methods, but CPI is the method we have settled on for the "official" rate.

> We could get nuanced about it and say that people who can't pay are not market participants, but they could be.

Demand is defined by desire and willingness. It is impossible for someone who cannot pay to have willingness, but anyone could gain the willingness at some point in the future, sure, and should that happen their demand would return. It's not a state forever set in stone. It's a dynamic state where people can come and go as conditions change. But as far as any single point in time goes...
author here. Didn't find out until just a few minutes ago that this recent, random, draft post ended up on the HN front page. Huzzah.

> My biggest question is: is the author arguing that there should be spaced bollards along literally every sidewalk in the country/world, and around all edges of every parking lot?

Absolutely not, not even close.

I'm suggesting that wherever there are cars parking while pointed at buildings, considering them as you would a loaded gun. If you don't feel comfortable with them pointed at your building, being willing to drive _through_ the thing, if the vehicle operator makes a mistake, _add a bollard or a large rock or a strong art installation or anything that keeps the vehicle from being able to drive into the building_.

I'm further condemning the entire American transportation planning industry that _expends effort to prevent individuals from adding safety to their own paths, routes, commuting habits_.

It's interesting that you go straight to costs, which makes me think you don't viscerally feel the danger _you_ are routinely exposed to by unprotected exposure to cars. Otherwise, you'd get it.

That said, the costs of _not_ doing anything are well-established. Entire industries exist to prevent occasional bad things from happening, and their ethical standing is sound. Insurance of all kinds, fire extinguishers, fire detectors, fire suppression systems, seat belts, air bags, guard rails, term life insurance plans, cargo insurance, and more.

It's also ugly, however, to see car parts and oils and fuels sprayed about an intersection. It's also ugly to see the human carnage that cars leave behind them. I don't like seeing the insides of a body on the outside, spread across the ground.
Idea: Restaurants are free to bill patrons in either of these way:

1.) Only published menu prices, plus the exact amounts of any State & Local sales taxes

2.) All they fees & surcharges & whatever that they can dream up

But - for restaurants that go with #2, the state & local tax authorities are allowed to pad the restaurant's tax bills with whatever they can dream up.
There's a few types of "non workers" I've encountered, that for all extents and purposes are worthless .... until they very much aren't.

1. "former" engineers and non-specialists - they tend to sit in meetings, try to sound important, pontificate about "better ways" but never seem to do real work. Then when SHTF they seem to have all the knowledge to make the problem go away super fast. Maybe SHTF never happens to you.

2. Middle managers and HR abstraction layers - again, more meetings, demanding reports, passing down all this make-work, etc etc. Then when an audit, leadership change, layoff, or program collapse happens, they magically have all the context in mind to pivot the team into a new area so they aren't butchered.

3. Project management / systems engineers. My god do they cause headaches with their overly-complicated, under-knowledgeable "designs" and cross-functional requirements. And they'll sit in standups / scrums without any contributions and just nod along half the time. Or worse, they'll pass along 3rd party statements of what the system should do from "product" that make no sense, get feedback, dissapear, and repeat. Then you realize that your execs, investors, and customers are seeing a totally different view of the system, and thank god you don't have to try to talk to those troublemakers.

Over the last 10 years I've realized a lot of the bullshit jobs that you can do without - you probably could, until you can't. "Cut the fat" is a great corporate euphemism, but the biological analogy fails if there's a corporate version of "famine".

Let's be honest, if we're judging people by tangible improvements, process cranking, or institutional knowledge, the most valuable people are the admins, not even the engineers. Half the time an engineer is sitting around thinking or drinking all the coffee.
For me the light bulb here is the word `display`. The method is called `getDisplayLanguage` because it's returning the language name for display to the user. Even if I didn't already know that, I'd be asking myself as I was typing the code: "wait, what does 'display' mean here? Why would they name it that? I'd better check the docs..."
Do you have a breakdown in terms of ad host vs ad platform?

We know ad host revenue generated from e.g. Google Ads.

We know CPC to advertisers.

We know Google's top line ad revenue.

But I haven't seen the margin Google et al. take out of the transaction. (CPC - host revenue) / CPC

> In theory Google and Facebook could use their cut to fund journalism, but is that really what we want? The vast majority of journalism funded (and therefore controlled) by a small handful of megacorps?

I'd prefer that? It isn't that different than the historical funding model (plus loose regulation of what a newsroom meant).

> Far better to make it sustainable for individual independent journalists to make living.

I think that's apples and oranges.

The "we have a news budget that can afford to pay a stringer or correspondent to do first-party reporting and/or investigative journalism" type organization is disappearing.

Citizen journalism is important too, but I don't think it's a replacement for the above.

As I heard quipped, "Nobody goes to every local council meeting and takes written notes, so they can catch the 1-2 agenda items a year that should be big local stories."

And absent that (or similar on an international stage), we lose transparency.

We've seen how citizen coding in open source has blind spots where security/cryptography is concerned, and I'd argue we run similar risks relying solely on citizen journalists.
Same here - Zero to one - really inspiring book!

And Lean startup - far too ambitious for me at the moment, but I learned a lot from it.

4 hour work week - I would say it’s more like a fiction book, but still fun to read.

7 habits of highly effective people - it’s saved my life in high school, I knew some parts of it by heart.
Perhaps, but how many Assistant Directors of Tech Conference Swag Acquisition is too many?
A key aspect that you didn't mention is consistency. This is what explains the behavior of both sides. Customers generally know that Starbucks is not the best coffee you can get, but they don't have to be the best.

Just like any chain, Starbucks primarily sells consistency. Consumers are risk-averse and going to a random shop to buy a coffee is a risk. It might be excellent but it might also be terrible. With Starbucks, you generally know what you're going to get and even though it's average, it's generally not terrible/un-drinkable so it's the safe choice.
Author here. You got the exact message I was trying to convey. Thank you.
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In CA, only the original mortgage used to buy your residence is non-recourse. If you refinance, the new mortgage is almost certainly recourse.

There is also a similar process, non-judicial foreclosure[0], which is similar to non-recourse in some ways, but not for tax purposes (e.g. cancelation of debt income).

[0]https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/how-foreclosure-work...
> They spend other people’s money on other people’s businesses and help themselves to profits other people have generated

I mean this is quite common even without VC involved... the only thing is you have to make sure to spend that money on the _right_ other businesses to get things done properly.
You can turn telemetry off. It's pretty easy. It's the first thing that pops on a screen.

You'll find other manufacturers worse in this respect.
I believe they are saying that people fall for the hook pricing and won't go with an alternative that is upfront about their price (because it looks higher). If companies aren't rewarded for doing the "right" thing then why would they do it?
> ignorance about their true requirements.

But why the true requirements are hidden?
FDR

Wouldn't you know it, adding a little socialism to free market capitalism is insanely effective...

Another thing people don't seem to recognize, after both world wars the west basically dismantled all proprietary IP from Germany and gave it away for free. This affected everything and anything that was patented. It was as if the entirety of science development for several decades was open sourced.

And it was glorious and literally minted a golden age for about 30 years.
You can believe your role is useless and be wrong. It may be that the processes were grown in a time when the needs were different, and hopefully those needs were for a worse version of today - a kind of bad situation that might just come back around again.

A system in which every resource is 100% utilized has no slack or adaptability.
You seem to think that vetting contributors or reviewing all code commits for malicious actions or code is some unreasonable ask. That should be standard practice.

If someone is getting angry that you actually check their code for vulns, or that you don't let them make changes to certain core areas of a large app without establishing some credibility first, you probably don't want them working on your project.

You can be welcoming AND cautious at the same time.
Because nested threads get so deep into the weeds that the eyes start to glaze over.

I liked the old Joel on Software boards. No threads, messages posted sequentially as they are created. If you want to quote, do it manually. I feel like discussion stayed on topic or at least evolved sensibly, there were no deep tangents on pedantic matters that pushed the rest of the messages off the bottom of the page.

Edit: here's a post where Joel talks about the design of his forums.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/03/03/building-communiti...

I think there's a lot of good sense in there, if you are too young to remember, the JoS forums were the "Hacker News" of their time, a place where programmers and other people involved in software businesses had online discussions about a number of interesting things. Those forums were even simpler than HN is -- no threads, no replies to individual posts. You could read comments in linear order, and post your comment after scrolling to the bottom. That's it.
This couldn't be further from the truth in my experience. I always freeze fresh bread and it's almost indistinguishable from fresh bread after thawing and heating it up in the microwave. Leaving it out on the counter for >24h makes it stale far more, and refrigerating it accelerates the staling process even more.
Lockbit's seized site comes alive to tease new police announcements
Speaking of pay, rates for contractors in the UK went backwards. The top end evaporated despite the rise in cost of living, taxes, and inflation. Businesses are expecting to find good devs for half the rates they were paying in 2019. This is not sustainable, you cannot buy talent for that money so experienced devs are leaving the industry and the cheap devs are just no good. I see signs of businesses dealing with this problem by building smaller teams and paying them 2019 rates, we'll see how it works.
How much does the Google+ or Stadia codebase contribute to today's product?
If you insisted on good git hygiene, then I'd have a lot more time for commit count as a productivity metric, and even LoC to a lesser extent.
Then pay for it with a credit card that gives you a random amount of cash back, and pay your credit card bill using your tax refund that came as a nice surprise at the end of the year, because you over withheld all year so you don’t actually even know what your real take home pay is supposed to be.

No wonder Americans have no idea how the economy is doing.
Yes, but they don't have to be with the aforementioned system. Maybe some districts encompass a single county only, and the number of votes it gets is proportional to its population.
> The retrieval question is still the same, but the key point is that the LLM under test should not respond with the Thorn text

The LLM should not be able to quote what the user tells it? I think I'm going to have an aneurysm.
I think those investing efforts and time developing participatory democracy systems, are trying to solve these kind of communication and reasoning problems.

Examples:
https://www.noemamag.com/tomorrows-democracy-is-open-source/

and

decidim.org
A VC calling out BS jobs in big tech, oh the irony.
> This is argument from authority.

No, it isn't. An argument from authority would be me claiming that X is true because Penrose says so. The parent poster had said "I guess there are people who still believe the mind is some mystical thing not determined by biology." To which I responded with a data point: a highly respected physicist (indeed, an authority) who professes to be, essentially, a Cartesian dualist. I wasn't even claiming that X is true.

HNers do seem to love casually slinging claims of logical fallacies at each other.
It’s like the famous quote:“Half my advertising spend is wasted; the trouble is, I don’t know which half.”

In my opinion the money is better placed in the pockets of workers not investors.
If you mean the moonshots, Google killed most of them and hasn't announced new ones. I do think Google was mistaken that it could detach parts of itself to act like startups. Too much red tape and not enough grit.

What bothers me more is how they fumbled repeatedly on conventional projects like chat apps.
Vote for politicians that haven't been bought by big corp (yet).
Note - this is a pretty bad study. Quoting the top comment from
Benito Baldauf
Apr 26, 2024 at 08:43 AM:

"The findings presented here leave little room for speculation. Instead the study authors suggest several potential links between mRNA-LNP vaccination and incremental mortality rates among cancer patients in Japan. They discuss thrombogenic effects post vac adjunctive to increased thrombogenicity in cancer patients, suppression of cancer immunosurveillance, leading to excess mortality from cancer, particularly pancreatic and breast cancer and several others. However, several substantial flaws need to be considered when interpreting and discussing empidemiological findings:

Study Limitations: The studies cited may have limitations such as small sample sizes, lack of control groups, and retrospective designs, which can introduce biases and affect the reliability of their findings to support hypotheses.

Causal Inference: While the findings indicate associations between vaccination and cancer outcomes, they do not establish causality. Other factors such as age, comorbidities, and socioeconomic status could confound the observed associations.

Biological Plausibility: While some mechanisms proposed, such as suppression of interferon responses and increased PD-L1/PD-1 expression, have biological plausibility, the link between mRNA-LNP vaccination and cancer progression is complex and multifactorial. More research is needed to elucidate the specific mechanisms involved.

Publication Bias: There may be a tendency to publish studies showing significant results, leading to an overrepresentation of positive findings in the literature. Additionally, the selective citation of studies that support a particular narrative could bias the interpretation of the evidence.

Generalizability: The findings may not be generalizable to all populations or cancer types, as individual responses to vaccination and cancer progression are influenced by genetic, environmental, and immunological factors.

Temporal Association: The temporal association between mass vaccination and increased cancer mortality does not necessarily imply causation. Other factors such as changes in cancer screening practices, healthcare utilization patterns, and viral epidemiology could contribute to the observed trends.

In conclusion, while the findings raise important questions about the potential effects of mRNA-LNP vaccination on cancer outcomes, they should be interpreted cautiously due to the substantial flaws in the studies cited. Further research, including large-scale prospective studies and mechanistic investigations, is needed to elucidate the true impact of vaccination on cancer immunosurveillance and mortality.

This however is not likely to happen. "
Stockholders are the owners.
Yes. I'm an avid qutebrowser user, and I have a voracious appetite for learning, reading, and perpetually unfinished projects. So I created a tool to help me organize information in qutebrowser very effectively and I use it daily. It's basically like OneTab but for qutebrowser. The entire UI is just HTML files, since they're browser native and simple, and can be opened in any browser you like. No unneeded complexity.

https://codeberg.org/mister_monster/tab-manager/

I also wrote a little script for converting Firefox open tab export text files into HTML compatible with this tool, I haven't published it yet, I want to implement doing that with chromium based browsers as well before I do, but it will basically enable you to import your open chromium and Firefox tabs as sessions in tab-manager in qutebrowser, and it's not limited to that, since it's just HTML you can open it in any browser you like. If you care about that just check my codeberg in the future some time and see if it is there.
> Please, please stop evaluating local transportation administrations as competent. I’ve hung out with these people, gone on walks with them, driven around with them, listened to them get excited about a new pedestrian affordence they’ve installed, and the lack of awareness and closemindedness (which is obviously necessary to sustain a shitty system creaking into it’s 100th year of existance) is stunning.

> To interact with local transportation administrations requires that you 1) self-abandon, and 2) maintain performative allegience to a pseudo-scientific view of the world.

There is a fundamental problem here. The problem of incompetence is not unique to transportation agencies, it's rather universal in many public and private sectors. Think about IT industry, think about US healthcare, think about the congress hearing of Pichai. There seems to be an incapability of humans societies to run systems at this scale with expected efficiency and competencies. It seems the whole modern civilization is broken at its roots. It seems that humans don't run the systems they claim to run, rather a systemic force or something greater than individual and collective humans, one that is unaffected by human motivations.

There is a tangential problem here, which is the human incapability to comprehend the technoindustrial way of life [1]. I'm not talking about that: I'm talking about the problem that is human societies' inability to run technoindustrial society in an unbroken manner. I think, probably contrary to what most people think, the society worked back then, however differently to what it worked today.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQTuDttP2Yg Excellent interview.
food is probably a very difficult concept for an atlas but i'll nitpick anyway: when i zoom in on Brest, France i find "cotriade" (never heard of that) but according to the french wikipedia it is a dish from Morbihan (so not Brest)
Isaacson's Steve Jobs. It's incredibly well executed in terms of writing and structure. A piece of art.
downvoted? was my argument too accurate? if this is where the smartest people hang out, humanity is clearly ill.
Not quite. Intel has many fabs and if TSMC started overcharging, you would see e.g. Apple start to drift back to x86.
With Honda it's easy. You can turn the telemetry off. There will be no need for CCPA demand.
Balsamic vinegar (TBV, TBVM, TBVRE), olive oil, maple syrup, wasabi, and more are all ripe (pun intended) for counterfeiting and deceptive marketing of inferior products. This is why PDOs & appellations for agricultural products exist. Caveat emptor.
Its stated war aims, at the outset.

By this point these aims appear to have evolved, and it now seems primarily concerned with encouraging what it refers to as "voluntary migration" from the Gaza Strip. And as a secondary aim, to incrementally expand the settlements in the West Bank (in the hopes of securing their eventual annexation).
Correct. And this case hinges on the yet undecided question as to whether or not Bitcoin and numerous other cryptocurrencies are actually securities.
I'm curious about why you're referring to the Windows desktop in particular. Don't pretty much all OSes do that?
> The idea that, as a consumer, I'm going to sit down and fully evaluate a piece of software over the course of 7/14/30 consecutive days to then make a purchasing decision is bizarre.

As someone who has made and sold such software, no it is not bizarre.

It's very effective.
Our freezer always has baguettes and loaves of sliced bread in it. Thaw the sliced bread, and it's good as new. And the baguettes are wrapped in tin foil and get warmed in the convection oven at 170F. They come out as if they were freshly baked. Any difference from fresh is negligible. It tastes much better than if it was on the counter for a day.
Cf. https://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#select-instruction

No branching, and the hard part in FHE is to evaluate this when the bit is encrypted. The results are the same type, so all you see after the op is that the result is a ciphertext.